"[1] Old Money premiered in an Off-Broadway Lincoln Center production at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater on December 7, 2000 and closed on January 21, 2001.
Jane Greenwood won the Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Costume Design.
The play takes place at a party at the private house of Jeffrey Bernstein on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
It time-travels between the present-day party goers and the "Gilded Era" of the early 20th century.
New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote that the play was " busy, frazzled" and "emphasize[s] theme and situation over character...Every so often an unexpected surge of emotional current electrifies Old Money, touching on feelings that range from the loneliness that follows the death of a family member to the anger that propels an outsider who wants in.